Design Assignments: Cartoon the Head!

 

Take any person, thing, or animal and apply a cartoon character head to it. Be creative!

 

This is a compilation of an owl and the red angry bird! Enjoy!

 

 owlangrybird

Angry Owl!

This is a compilation of an owl and the red angry bird! Enjoy!

I Don’t Know What It’s Called But it’s About…**

How many times have we said that sentence before, we are talking about a movie and want to reference it but can’t remember the title!!! Maybe we know an actor or two, but other than that we pretty much are left to Goolge-ing random things or trying to trace IMDB actors to the desired film. Well, sadly these things won’t help you with this two star design assignment which calls for getting pictures of four things and putting them together to try and describe a movie, what a task! Here was my end result:

 

FinalProduct

 

I got all of these pictures from the website recommended in the description which I absolutely loved! I love how you could search a topic and see all of results, it was simplistic and had tons of different options as well. It is definitely a site I will keep in mind  for future design projects! I saved each image by using the print screen tool and then cropped just the picture in GIMP. Next I opened each design as a layer in GIMP and moved them in the order that I desired. I wanted to go more in chronological order, but I think you should get it no matter what :)

 

Happy guessing!

Princess Karissa

Dora Me?

For [2/15] stars I decided to attempt Cartoon the head! by Feng Chen. “Take any person, thing, or animal and apply a cartoon character head to it.” I really enjoyed this assignment!

I took a picture from my graduation album and then searched for an image of Dora the explorer’s head. I then added both pictures to paint then selected Dora’s head outta the image and then pasted it on my head(: It was a simple assignment and a lot of fun!

Cartoon Headed Obama

Seriously, I cannot get enough of this Big Bird stuff. Politics gold.

Anywho, for this assignment, I decided to cartoon a picture of Obama and Romney after the debate. I choose the same Big Bird picture I did in the other assignment. Political bias aside, I think what Romney said was one the biggest gaffes of the debate/campaign, including the 47% remark.

For this one, I opened both pictures. On the Big Bird pictures, I selected his face, including his beak. Then I right clicked in the selection and pressed copy, then I went to my Romney/Obama picture and hit paste. Then I went to my layers panel (tip: hit control + L or command + L on a Mac to make this panel appear) and right clicked the “pasted” layer and hit “to new layer.” Then I moved Big Bird’s head to sit on Obama’s and used the scale tool to shrink it a bit.

I am just eating up all the political hilarity from the debate.

 

Cartoon head

I downloaded Vin diesel‘s photo from Google, then I crap the Popeye the sailor man‘s head in GIMP and put it in Vin Diesel’s head. I found the character of the actor on the movie and the cartoon‘s character similar, thus I taught it would be a good idea to do this. It was fun design, I enjoyed doing it.

Cartoonization

Meme Chase

Aside from the obvious lines on the dog, I thought this turned out nicely. I still can’t look at the horse with a straight face.

Original image: http://www.fugly.com/media/IMAGES/Random/horse-chasing-dog.jpg

ds106 assignment – cartoon the head!

Assignment: Fairly simple assignment; though a little technical. You just need to superimpose something’s head onto another something’s head.

Process: I procured the two images from Google image search; one is an advertisements for actual $5 Elvis toast, and the other is what appears to be someone’s oekaki of Ren and Stimpy’s Captain Toast Man.

The tricky part is getting the new toast head onto captain toast man; the Elvis toast head is huge, and it has its own background in its own original picture, so I had to cut it out via a layer in GIMP, then scale that layer down under the layer menu. I played with the number of pixels for the new scaled version until the size was about right; secondly I needed to flip the Elvis head so that the Elvis head representation on the toast matched that of the original Captain Toast Man head, so I just flipped the layer horizontally; again under the layer menu. Then I just finished up with some positioning, and I thought it looked pretty good.

Story: Wow, my favorite child-hood character and Elvis; there’s no relevance or meaning really, I just liked the casual absurdity of it. I originally was going to just do Stimpy’s head on Ren, but I saw Captain Toast Man when searching for the Ren and Stimpy pictures, so I just had to get that. Then I realized it would be eye-catching if it was real toast instead of the drawn cartoon toast, but the final twist of the Elvis head came in when I just happened to see it when searching for toast. There’s a lot freaky toast if you search for “toast” on google; including the Jesus and MLK toasts.


Zoro on Zorro

The Assignment: I actually realized after completing this assignment that it was a design assignment, of which I have already done this section. But since I was inspired by Takuji and Yuka‘s posts, I did it anyway.

The instructions are as follows:

Take any person, thing, or animal and apply a cartoon character head to it. Be creative!

The Process/Story: I am a big fan of One Piece, and have always liked the character of Zoro (I even dressed up as him on Halloween when I was 17). His name is obviously based on the famous “Gentleman Thief” Swordman Zorro, so I thought it would be funny to combine the two for this assignment.

I started by looking for a good picture of Zoro. Apparently, there are three different official Japanese websites for One Piece, and one official American one, but none of them had any good pictures of Zoro I could use.

So I headed to MiniTokyo, a site I often use for anime desktop wallpapers, where people scan anime and related pictures that appear in magazines and post them.

There, I found a really good picture of Zoro from a magazine article. (I would post the original MiniTokyo link, but you have to be a member to see it.) So I cut his head out using the polygonal lasso tools and drew in the rest of the sword that was cut off of the original image.

Next, I went looking for a good picture of Zorro. After a while of searching, I found this picture of a scene from the 2005 Legend of Zorro movie, which worked perfect for what I wanted it for.

To finish, all I did was take the head I had already cut out, shrunk it down to size with the Free Transform tools, then flipped the image horizontally so he was facing the same direction.

I like how it turned out, and think it looks very realistic. Well, as realistic as a human with a cartoon head can look, anyway. :D

Tony Tony Chopper became real deer!!

The ds106 assignment that I chose is cartoon the head of design assignment :)

“Take any person, thing, or animal and apply a cartoon character head to it. Be creative.”

I searced two pictures from Google image.

Process:

1, I used GIMP for editing two pictures.

2, The picture of geer used as layer.

3, I cut only chopper’s head by using cutting system.

4, put them togeher

5, DONE!!!!!!

Story:

When I opend GIMP, my PC freezed so it took much time to do it.

Also, I’m not sure it is creative but I did my best!!!

However, it was interesting for me to make it because my purpose of using these pictures was making real deer!! Tony Tony Chopper from one piece is acutually deer so I like to mixing real picture of deer and chopper!!

I really like this REAL DEER CHOPPER<3